whizz-bangs

The action man was Pete Crenshaw ( "Second Investigator"), always called upon for feats of athletic prowess, and whose dad was a Hollywood special effects man, providing lots of excellent props and whizz-bangs to help the boys bring down various bad guys.

On the trail of the Three Investigators 2010

The Boche shells were mostly going over our heads, but whizz-bangs now and again hit the ground to left and right of us; a smashed limber had not been cleared from the road, and fifty yards short of the railway crossing four decomposing horses emitted a sickening stench.

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

Our funk hole was all right for whizz-bangs and other fireworks of that sort, but no use against these portmanteaux they were now sending along.

Bullets & Billets Bruce Bairnsfather

It was aggravating, to say the least, to have the other fellow sending over "crumps" without limit, and be able to send back nothing but six or eight "whizz-bangs."

The Emma Gees Herbert Wes McBride

At the same instant there breaks out the boom of our heavy guns, the sharp staccato of sixty-pounders, the dull roar of howitzers, and the ear-splitting clamour of whizz-bangs -- a bedlam of noise.

The Masques of Ottawa Domino

"They dropped two whizz-bangs between No. 1 gun and No. 2."

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

First the 1,500 yards from Riencourt to "C" company had to be traversed, and from there it was another 1,000 yards to the required position; meanwhile the enemy was continually shelling with 5. 9's at important points and with whizz-bangs promiscuously.

The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919 S. J. Wilson

"Ricochet shots from whizz-bangs fired at very close range," commented Major Bullivant.

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

He wiped out at least two infantry teams and waggons -- although the Boche tried hard to knock his gun out with 5·9's and whizz-bangs.

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

The barrage began at 9.30 p.m. with heavy trench mortars and whizz-bangs, opening South of Breslau and gradually extending North.

The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion W. C. C. Weetman